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Internal McCain Strategy Memo:

As we all know, Senator Obama has the momentum and the excitement in this election so it is incumbent (no pun intended) upon us to consistently and impressively prove Senator McCain's maverickititude and occasionally shock the press into the believing that Senator Christ from Illinois isn't the only one running.

Step 1: Choose Delightful, unqualified No-Name for VP. They won't see this coming! Not with all our talk of experience. Keeping em on their toes!

Step 2: Suspend the Campaign! We will be the first campaign to win by actively trying to lose.

Step 3: At the third debate, during one of the softball questions the press will invariably lob at Sen Obama, Sen McCain will remove a butter knife from this right breast pocket and proceed to rip his own eyes out, proclaiming loudly "I'd rather lose the election because I'm blind and win the war!" This will undoubtedly dominate several news cycles.

Step 4: 48 hours before the election Sen McCain will convene a press conference to announce his intention to have gender reassignment surgery. People will forget Senator SmartyPants and vote for John McCain, American Hero, because it's the only name they can remember.

The Mother of All Bailouts has many fathers. As panicked politicians prepare to fork over a trillion dollars in taxpayer funding to rescue the financial industry, they?ve fingered regulation, deregulation, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Community Reinvestment Act, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, both Bushes, greedy banks, greedy borrowers, greedy short-sellers, and minority home ownership mau-mauers (can?t call ?em greedy, that would be racist) for blame.
But there?s one giant paternal elephant in the room that has slipped notice: How illegal immigration, crime-enabling banks, and open-borders Bush policies fueled the mortgage crisis.
It?s no coincidence that most of the areas hardest hit by the foreclosure wave ? Loudon County, Virginia, California?s Inland Empire, Stockton, San Joaquin Valley, Las Vegas, and Phoenix, for starters ? also happen to be some of the nation?s largest illegal alien sanctuaries. Half of the mortgages to Hispanics are subprime (the accursed species of loan to borrowers with the shadiest credit histories). A quarter of all those subprime loans are in default and foreclosure.
Regional reports across the country have decried the subprime meltdown?s impact on illegal immigrant ?victims.? A July report showed that in seven of the 10 metro areas with the highest foreclosure rates, Hispanics represented at least one-third of the population; in two of those areas ? Merced and Salinas-Monterey, Calif. ? Hispanics comprised half the population. The amnesty-promoting National Council of La Raza and its Development Fund have received millions in federal funds to ?counsel? their constituents on obtaining mortgages with little to no money down; the group almost succeeded in attaching a $10 million earmark for itself in one of the housing bills past this spring.

Bulls-it. It's a big friggin' game McCain is playing. "Oh, we couldn't get the ads down in time. But the campaign is suspended." That's why McCain was at CBS in New York last night doing interviews instead of Washington, DC.

Everyone should call or visit the McCain campaign office nearest to them, to find out if they are closed down today....or open as usual. If they are open, ask them why?! Call your local news station and newspaper, and demand that they ask how McCain can claim his campaign is "suspended" when they continue doing everything they were doing before. Ads schmads-- there is much more to a campaign than tv ads.
My point is, this whole "suspension" thing is a total farce. It's fine for McCain to suddenly change his schedule because events call him back to DC (ie, fine to cancel Letterman), but to claim that his campaign is "suspended" is patently dishonest.

Everyone should call or visit the McCain campaign office nearest to them, to find out if they are closed down today....or open as usual. If they are open, ask them why?! Call your local news station and newspaper, and demand that they ask how McCain can claim his campaign is "suspended" when they continue doing everything they were doing before. Ads schmads-- there is much more to a campaign than tv ads.
My point is, this whole "suspension" thing is a total farce. It's fine for McCain to suddenly change his schedule because events call him back to DC (ie, fine to cancel Letterman), but to claim that his campaign is "suspended" is patently dishonest.

What a croc this is. If the US does not get an equity stake and purchase these securities under 60%. Cap and trade? Look at how EU is running from theirs. Global warming, real? Can you say bend over?
If you care about the truth, read everything both sides say, leave the msm, and apply everything to small scale, family budget, neighborhood relations. You wouldn't advise anyone you care about to apply these goverment policies in their own life.
pick either one, not much difference except that obama will get us there a little faster, gas and everything dependant on energy will cost us substantially more, so that should bankrupt the government and require a new world currency as the dollar will be worthless.

Letterman?
you know what I find so interesting about you libs. You all need actors, actresses, stars, athletes, etc... to validate the choices you make.
Not sure why? Mindless, empty skulls of mush? Can't or won't read? Too lazy?
YOu all crack me up...
HA HA HA HA!

McCain spox Nicole Wallace was on Morning Joe this morning, full of bromide and snark, suggesting maybe Obama could take one of his styrofoam pillars to Mississippi and debate it.
If the campaign is truly suspended, why is McCain's spox all over MSNBC ridiculing Obama?
What a shallow, transparent stunt to get out of not only the first presidential debate, but also to get out of the VP debate entirely.

Riiiiight. That's why a McCain/RNC radio spot aired this AM in the Winchester, VA market - which covers a significant area in the NoVA, MD, and WV region. It was the one that lies about Obama's plan, saying it'll raise all sorts of taxes on the middle class and such - one that's been debunked and called out for its lies may times before.

Dear Jesus, if we're counting on McCain to come up with a SPEEDY resolution to this crisis, it does not bode well that he takes about 24 hours to even follow through on his own commitment to suspend his campaign.

of course...
getting all of those ads to stop running, all of those phone calls to the TV stations. All of the press releases to promote suspending the campaign...as Brian Rogers says "this takes time". yes... time, energy, resources. Panic & crisis are resource intensive, haven't we learned that in the past past two terms.
It's this kind of panic, all hands on deck, no thinking mentality that got us in this mess in the first place.
Suspending the campaign requires a lot of thought, planning, and campaign resources...
If McCain really wanted to focus on the economy he shouldn't distract his own campaign resources with all this drama about suspending.

My brother, a prominent Texas attorney, said it best last night:
"I always felt John McCain was a forthright, honorable man. In my opinion he has destroyed any sense of honor in the past 6 weeks and shown himself as being willing to say or do anything to be elected President without any regard for the People or the future of our country. What honor he had 35 years ago is gone. He is incapable of real leadership and I won't vote for him now."
Ditto.